News of the day from across the nation, June 15

Chronicle News Services

Updated 9:26 pm, Thursday, June 15, 2017

1 Sect leader captured: Polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs was captured Wednesday night in South Dakota after being on the run for nearly a year when he escaped from home confinement in Utah pending trial on a multimillion-dollar food stamp fraud scheme. The FBI announced the capture Thursday with a tweet: “#ARRESTED: FLDS leader Lyle Jeffs in custody after nearly a year on the lam.” The group, known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, is based in a small community on the Utah-Arizona border, but it also has a small compound in far west South Dakota.

2Wrongful-death lawsuit: The family of an unarmed black man fatally shot by a white Oklahoma officer filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in federal court Thursday against the city of Tulsa and the policewoman, who was acquitted of manslaughter charges last month. The lawsuit filed on behalf of Terence Crutcher seeks at least $75,000 in damages and calls for widespread reform in the Tulsa Police Department, including mandatory training for police officers on managing suspects with mental health or substance abuse issues as well as mandatory activation of dash cameras during encounters.

3Klan auction: Several Ku Klux Klan items listed in a classified ad have been pulled from a Pennsylvania auction. WTAE-TV reports items such as a hood, book and robe adornment were posted on an auction website and scheduled to be sold at the Taylorstown Fire Hall on Thursday. Resident Derrick Edwards told WTAE that it’s wrong to “make a profit off racism.”

4Fugitives captured: Authorities say they have captured two escaped inmates wanted in the slayings of two Georgia prison guards. Law enforcement officials said 43-year-old Donnie Russell Rowe and 24-year-old Ricky Dubose were apprehended Thursday in Christiana, Tenn. The inmates were being hunted in the killings Tuesday morning of two prison guards who were overpowered, disarmed and shot to death on a prison bus southeast of Atlanta. Baldwin State Prison transfer Sgts. Christopher Monica and Curtis Billue were slain. Authorities had offered a $130,000 reward for information leading to their arrests.

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5 Fake architect: A fake architect named Newman has pleaded guilty to fraud after an investigation by New York’s attorney general dubbed “Operation Vandelay Industries.” Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office says Paul Newman had rendered fraudulent architectural services since 2010 in Albany, Rensselaer and Saratoga counties. Newman pleaded guilty to six felonies including grand larceny and fraud. Newman is expected to be sentenced to 21/3 to seven years in state prison and pay more than $115,000 in restitution. Schneiderman dubbed the operation to nab Newman “Vandelay Industries” in reference to a long-running joke on “Seinfeld” about a fictional company by that name. A character named Newman was Jerry’s nemesis on the sitcom.